installation.rst

Installation

Requirements

PHP needs to be a minimum version of PHP 7.4.

Installation

Locally

Download the php-cs-fixer.phar file and store it somewhere on your computer.

Globally (manual)

You can run these commands to easily access latest php-cs-fixer from anywhere on your system:

$ wget https://cs.symfony.com/download/php-cs-fixer-v3.phar -O php-cs-fixer

or with specified version:

$ wget https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer/releases/download/v3.0.1/php-cs-fixer.phar -O php-cs-fixer

or with curl:

$ curl -L https://cs.symfony.com/download/php-cs-fixer-v3.phar -o php-cs-fixer

then:

$ sudo chmod a+x php-cs-fixer
$ sudo mv php-cs-fixer /usr/local/bin/php-cs-fixer

Then, just run php-cs-fixer.

Globally (Composer)

To install PHP CS Fixer, install Composer and issue the following command:

$ composer global require friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

Then make sure you have the global Composer binaries directory in your PATH. This directory is platform-dependent, see Composer documentation for details. Example for some Unix systems:

$ export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"

Globally (homebrew)

$ brew install php-cs-fixer

Locally (PHIVE)

Install PHIVE and issue the following command:

$ phive install php-cs-fixer # use `--global` for global install

Update

Locally

The self-update command tries to update php-cs-fixer itself:

$ php php-cs-fixer.phar self-update

Globally (manual)

You can update php-cs-fixer through this command:

$ sudo php-cs-fixer self-update

Globally (Composer)

You can update php-cs-fixer through this command:

$ ./composer.phar global update friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

Globally (homebrew)

You can update php-cs-fixer through this command:

$ brew upgrade php-cs-fixer

Locally (PHIVE)

$ phive update php-cs-fixer